The Devil at 4 O'Clock (1961)

Father Joseph Perreau: God go with you.
Harry: God? Who is he?
Charlie: I've never heard of him.

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Father Matthew Doonan: I'll bet you were a sweet little altar boy.
Harry: Weren't we all?

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Charlie: I was a pretty good thief in my time.
Father Matthew Doonan: I believe that.
Charlie: It's too late. Can't you get out now?
Father Matthew Doonan: It's never too late to change.
Charlie: My mother, that's what she used to say, "It's never too late."
Father Matthew Doonan: She was right.
Charlie: She kept after me - kept tellin' me - there was another thief once dyin' on the cross right next to Christ.
Father Matthew Doonan: The Good Thief.
Charlie: That's what she called him.
Father Matthew Doonan: He didn't chicken out. He just got smart and at the very last moment, he stole Heaven.
Charlie: That's pretty good stealin', huh?

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Jean-Pierre Aumont, who played Jacques in this movie, spoke of this film's scheduling conflicts between Spencer Tracy and Frank Sinatra in his autobiography 'Sun and Shadow': "Spencer Tracy, a genial man who was not well at the time, couldn't work past the morning. The problem was that Sinatra would only work in the afternoon. In the morning he hired a private plane and hopped from island to island trying to convince the startled inhabitants to vote for Kennedy in the next presidential election. Around two o'clock he returned, exhausted, at the precise moment when Tracy was retiring for the day to his rooms. How, in these conditions, the scenes between Tracy and Sinatra were shot is a mystery to me."
This picture is a cross-genre hybrid film: it is both an adventure movie and a disaster film.
Apparently, at the time of this film's theatrical release, Spencer Tracy said of Frank Sinatra that "Nobody at Metro (MGM) ever had the financial power Sinatra had today."
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